New DNA Evidence and Improper Bite Mark Analysis Point ...The Innocence Project and the Mississippi Innocence Project filed a motion in the Mississippi Supreme Court today urging the court to vacate the capital murder conviction and death sentence of Eddie Lee Howard, Jr., based on new DNA ... The New York Times reported that in the more than 30years since forensic dentistry was popularized during the televised trial of serial murderer Ted Bundy, mounting evidence has shown that matching body wounds to a suspect's ...http://www.innocenceproject.org/news/Blog.php

Mississippi Tea Party activist embroiled in dirty tricks ...... killed himself. Mark Mayfield appeared in court last month, on a charge of conspiracy in relation to alleged illegal photographing of the ailing wife of Thad Cochran. Photograph: Rogelio V. Solis/AP. Jessica Glenza in New York ... The death of Mark Mayfield, a lawyer whose age was given by police as 57, comes days after a candidate he ardently supported for the US Senate failed in a runoff with incumbent Thad Cochran, a six-term Mississippi Republican. Mayfield ...http://www.theguardian.com/world